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...miles around. However, this year Cutzamala itself is running dry amid low levels of rainfall in the area. Its main basin is only 47% full, compared to an annual average of 70% for early April. "This could be caused by climate change and deforestation. These are difficult factors to understand and predict," says Felipe Arreguin, under director of the National Water Commission. "We had to have the stoppages now to make sure that some supply can continue until the rain in June." The first two partial stoppages in February and March cut off water to hundreds of thousands...
...never thought you could like Mike Tyson. Fallen pugilist who destroyed his career, convicted rapist—not to mention an ear-biting demon in the ring—Tyson has a bad rap. Societal mores of compassion advocate human understanding in the face of seriously bad behavior; they tell us that people are complicated, that we should delve beneath the surface of society’s most troubled and attempt to connect. But for most people, the only way to interact with such a terrifying person is superficial at best.Documentary filmmaking provides the opportunity to truly deliver someone else?...
...multidisciplinary, static and interactive. “I am interested in making stuff that I, and other people, can’t categorize,” he says. And as Biggers engages the viewer with innovative forms, he asks them to consider the very basis with which they understand his art.Born in Los Angeles in 1970 and currently based in New York, Biggers has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Whitney and the Tate Modern. This semester, he teaches two Visual and Environmental Studies classes as a visiting professor: “Objects and Environments?...
...Harvard. In addition, Moomaw stated that one hurdle to significant environmental progress comes from “scientific doubters” who believe that taking immediate steps to address climate change is unnecessary and potentially counterproductive without further knowledge. “But what they don’t understand,” Moomaw said, “is that learning and instituting regulation can go together.” Similarly, he claimed that the slow implementation of environmental policy stems from the influence of institutions such as the Heartland and Cato Institutes, which provide more conservative views on environmentalism...
...says. “In all of those areas, SEAS is absolutely perfect for Harvard to have a major impact.” Echoing Venky’s vision, Murray says she believes that we can only solve these problems through interdisciplinary learning and by educating leaders who can understand science. She says she will continue to develop the Technology, Science and Society concentration and the Bioengineering concentration for undergraduates as well as work to establish connections with Harvard’s other schools. “We have all these horizontal interactions between SEAS and systems biology...